the.com/harvest moon
the full moon so bright, farmers kept working after sunset because it lit the fields for free.
means the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, named for the extra evening light it gave farmers bringing in crops before frost.
from predates electric light: near the equinox the moon rises only minutes later each night instead of the usual fifty, so dusk after dusk stayed lit — a gift farmers named outright.
timing quirkrises almost same time several nights running
date rangefalls in september, sometimes early october
song legacyneil young turned it into a standard
color mythlooks orange from low-angle atmospheric scattering, not size